Of course, the biggest reason not to stock up or take the tablets is that if things do go bad, the people in Japan will need them much more then we will.
This is one of the single wisest things I'd heard on this issue. The ocean is exceptionally large and the winds are fairly slow, and so any radiation that makes it to the US will be trivial, even if things get as bad as Chernobyl (which they won't). OTOH, if the wind shifts in Japan and things get any worse, Tokyo could have problems.
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Date: 2011-03-18 10:07 am (UTC)This is one of the single wisest things I'd heard on this issue. The ocean is exceptionally large and the winds are fairly slow, and so any radiation that makes it to the US will be trivial, even if things get as bad as Chernobyl (which they won't). OTOH, if the wind shifts in Japan and things get any worse, Tokyo could have problems.